We are in the process of reengineering our architecture with the
intention of moving away from a full blow Java 5 EE server (Glassfish)
to a lighter weight OSGI infrastructure. Presently the communication
between our Eclipse client and the server is Web Services based, so I
think that the Riena server may be just what I am looking for in a base
architecture.

What makes me a little nervous is that the scope of Riena is much
broader than ORMF requires. I would like to assure myself that ORMF
will not be required to carry a substantial amount of extra baggage is
we adopt Riena. So far my limited reading and explorations leads me to
believe that Riena is cleanly partitioned so that we should have few
issues. I would be very appreciate if someone from the team could
confirm my assumptions.